SB2025092414 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM WatsonX BI Assistant
Published: September 24, 2025
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 3 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Type Confusion (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-49796)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a type confusion error within the xmlSchematronFormatReport() function when processing sch:name elements in schematron.c. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application, trigger a type confusion error and crash the application.
2) Not qualyfied (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-49795)
This issue does not qualify for vulnerability definition as it is present in the dev code that was never released outside of the dev tree.
The original description:
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error within the xmlSchematronFormatReport() function when processing incorrect XPath expressions in Schematron schema reports. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
3) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-49794)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error within the xmlSchematronGetNode() function when processing XPath expressions in Schematron schema elements schematron.c. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted XML input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.